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And experimenting in grey scale in Clip Studio! Learning a lot. Thanks @Friended4Ever for recommending some good brushes.
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Robert Romano
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Robert Romano
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Children of the Grave RPG. https://t.co/vyJ8vUZRn8. @ComicsgateVideo. #Comicsgate This is where I post art, music and sometimes politics. @LimitGovt
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POV: You're flying by the Moon.
This visualization is designed to show you what exactly the Artemis II astronauts will see outside their window during their lunar flyby.
Here, the seven-hour visualization is compressed into 28 seconds. ⬇ (1/4)
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Where no man has gone before.😑
Derek@loehndorfly
@WilliamShatner Where did you guys go on the Enterprise?
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In conspiracy land, we either attacked ourselves, staged the attack or else were complicit by “letting” it happen in every war, we killed JFK, we staged the moon landing, etc. Everyone who believes these things loses faith in their country. So, maybe it’s just enemy propaganda to demoralize us?
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Not linking the original because it very possibly might be conspiratard bait. What I would want to ask him is: do you really think nothing ever reaches orbit when we now have almost a thousand human beings from multiple countries who've all been to orbit (or in the case of guys like Buzz Aldrin, beyond) and returned to talk about it?
Someone credible would have blown it open. Blabbed. Or more likely, several hundred someones.
You cannot contain a coverup under those conditions. Not with so many people involved, some of whom have spent weeks, months, or years in space, and who would happily reveal the lie. Because nobody ever applies to be an astronaut without dreaming of space. And not getting to go to space would be the most shattering of disappointments.
You could not pay these people enough to play along, nor could you threaten them. Not all of them. Word would get out. Evidence of the fraud would be brought forward.
Anyone still insisting space missions are hoaxes is deliberately living in a delusion.
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The breaking reports of the safe rescue of the F-15 WSO are a profound relief to every American. God Bless this brave servicemember who evaded capture in the most challenging circumstances and God Bless the special operations forces who put their lives on the line for this dangerous rescue mission.
It is a deeply engrained patriotic value that Americans will to go to the ends of the earth (and beyond!) and do whatever it takes including risking it all to bring their fellow Americans home.
Happy Easter, indeed. ✝️
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I propose that every team that refuses to win in the race for the Eastern Conference WC2 spot donates a few players who can actually play hockey and give a shit, and together we can make a Franken-team for the playoffs
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@VLolosOfficiel @LOGOScomics I thought he wanted you both to win
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wait... so the ComicsGate secret benefactor didn't want me or Patric @LOGOScomics to win??????!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
AW C'MON MAAAAN we're both like the nicest dudes XD
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@SandyofCthulhu My son suggests the reason is because air is less dense the higher you go therefore fewer molecules to transfer heat.
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Oh no the ancient Greeks didn't know that getting higher in the air got colder. Didn't they have weather balloons? Satellites? Scout planes?
The idea that it got warmer closer to the sun is actually pretty logical. The main way to disprove it if you can't fly is to look at mountains, but perhaps there is some other reason the mountains are cold up high.
藤原華｜作家@editor_hana
ごめん、誰か知ってたら教えてほしいんだけどギリシャ神話にイカロスっていたじゃん？ 太陽に近づきすぎて、蝋で作った翼が溶けちゃった人。 だけどさ、実際のところ、地上から上空に向かうとどんどん気温って下がるじゃん？ 飛行機に乗ってる時ってだいたい高度約10,000メートルの上空にいるけど、あそこまで上空に行くと外気温がマイナス40度とかになるじゃん？ 熱源であるはずの太陽に近づいているのに、なんで気温は地上よりも下がるの？ ってかイカロスは太陽に近づいて蝋の翼が溶けたはずだけど、上空って寒いから溶けなくない？ それとももっと上に行けば、気温は上がるの？どれくらい上に行けば蝋が溶けるレベルの気温になるの？ 対流圏？成層圏？それとも電離圏ぐらいまで行かないと無理？ でもそこまで行ったらもう空気がないから呼吸できなくね？ じゃあ、イカロスはどうやって「蝋でできた翼」が溶けるくらい高温かつ上空に行ったの？？
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@ConceptualJames I’ve never heard a thing like that at mass, not once in going to church for almost 46 years. Somebody is promoting sectarian strife but it’s not the church, making the discourse definitionally fringe and radical. Are there even any parishes who are saying this?
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@aj_inapi @BillAckman Besides securing the remaining nuclear material, the high oil and gas prices and the strait are the controllable aspects of the war by which success will be evaluated. High prices if they linger will throw 2028 in question, making not getting nukes riskier. Finish the job!
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Did President Trump know his approval rating could drop if he approved Operation Epic Fury? YES.
Did he know it could split his base? YES.
Did he know some people would blame Israel? YES.
Did he know the media and Democrats would try to sabotage the operation politically? YES.
Did he know oil and gas prices might temporarily rise? YES.
Was he probably advised not to do it? Very likely.
Did he receive the same intelligence briefings every President has received for the past 47 years? YES.
So the real question is not what did he know?
The real question is: Why did he do it anyway?
COURAGE.
The same courage that made him stand up in Butler after being shot and say:
“Fight, Fight, Fight.”
The same courage that made him run for re-election after:
~ Two impeachments
~ Endless investigations
~ FBI raids
~ Court cases
~ Media attacks every single day
~ Being banned from social media
~ Assassination attempts
~ Political lawfare designed to bankrupt and imprison him
Most politicians protect their approval rating.
Most politicians protect their career.
Most politicians follow the polls.
Most politicians do what is safe.
Leaders do what they believe is necessary, even when it is unpopular.
Trump is not a politician.
He is a leader.
And leaders don’t make decisions based on polls.
They make decisions based on what they believe is right for the country - even if it costs them politically.
That’s the difference.
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If NATO secures the strait, it will pay off the way the essay suggests, but suppose they don’t. Then, the U.S. Navy will need to do it. We’ve had a few oil shocks and the incumbents lost most of the elections that followed: 1976, 1980, 1992, 2008 and 2024. 2012 was the exception.
American voters don’t usually go along with inflation. They keep throwing the bums out until it ends usually, war or no war. If oil doesn’t come down, we’ll have inflation. So economically we need the strait open as much as Europe and Asia do. Whatever the President does must be politically sustainable. Inflation never is.
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I'm saying we're going through a lot of trouble just to call Nazis "woke", and it's often used as an alternative to calling Nazi ideas Nazi. Calling them "woke right" got a lot of attention, but it doesn't tell us what we're really dealing with. It just offers another unintentional disguise. No, they're just Nazis. Just compare what they're saying to what Nazis said. It's the simplest explanation.
The "critical" explanation while interesting -- it tries to show similarities between the two schools -- also ignores the very obvious differences. And "woke" in its original rendering had to do with anti-racism, that is, be aware of or "woke" to the real racists and for your own safety get away from them. What a coincidence, the Frankfurt school fled Nazi Germany. Were the Nuremberg laws "hidden" racism? Not at all! Anyone who escaped were the lucky ones.
So, originally "woke" was applied by Blacks in America, who were victims of real racism, first, of systematic slavery and later systematic segregation. It wasn't "hidden" at all, either! What, they just made it up?
We can debate about whether sufficient progress has been made along this front to justify ending certain instances of reverse discrimination, as the Supreme Court did 9-0 in 2025 on the Title VII ruling without trying to make out like all denunciations of racism are made up.
All that has very little to do with what we're really confronting, which is just recycled, conspiratorial anti-Semitism. We already know what the source of that is and was, and so we don't require an alternative explanation. It wasn't the "critical" theory. We're not going to open up a new exhibit at the Holocaust Museum and situate Horkheimer of all people into as one of its villains! FFS. Communists were Holocaust victims, too.
Trying to shoe-horn Nazism into so-called "leftism" -- that's funny why'd Hitler and Mussolini appeal directly to the "right"? -- or Marxism historically has never been an effective antidote, and today I find it not a very firm ground to fight against things like anti-Semitism. They don't care if you call them "left", Marxist or anything like that. It's not a deterrent. Young people being indoctrinated with this stuff don't care what names we're calling them.
Ironically, the actual "critical" school does a better job at accounting for historical anti-Semitism but that's not where I would wage this battle from, either.
Instead, I think all that is needed is to refute that actual Nazi renderings, their pseudo-histories, their pseudo-sciences, etc. by showing their falsehoods.
For example, we know Jesus was Jewish because it says it in the Bible with his family tree. Traditional Christian theology takes that apart easily. Or, we know Aryans, the way Chamberlain and Hitler rendered them, are made up fictions because of archaelogical discoveries plus the fact the Nazis went all over the world looking for them and didn't find shit. And so forth. Or, Candace Owens appears to be referencing ideas things that were explicitly written in Mein Kampf.
So, from my perspective studying political science and ideologies all these years -- and I greatly respect trying to repudiate this stuff, my family and its future generation has a vested interest in ensuring anti-Semitism is defeated again -- I find the explanation for the Nazism and anti-Semitism we are clearly seeing to be inadequate, non-historical and if anything overly complicated explanation for what's really happening when the simpler explanation is they're just Nazis.
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It's a great explanation, but I think you've gone in a little different direction, no? You've gone for the Woke-Reich/Nazi end of things, but I'm hearing James as going at Woke from its being a leftist thing. I'd say the Nazi bros come under the heading of glomming on through an alignment of interests. They align with the woke as far as being yet another group salivating an American decline and seeing themselves as rising from the ashes with an Intergralist, Christianist, White Nationalist, whatever...view of what they hope to build in the end times (some of them stand for nothing other than just being grifting nihilists).
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What you see almost endlessly from Tucker Carlson, "Comic" Dave Smith, Theo Von, etc., and the rest of the blackpillers amounts to a Critical America Theory. I'm not making this up. I'm explaining.
Critical Theory was developed by neo-Marxist Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School in 1937. In an interview in 1969, Horkheimer explained what the Critical Theory is. He said (closely paraphrasing):
"I developed the Critical Theory because we [Western neo-Marxists] realized we cannot articulate the good or ideal society on the terms of the existing society. What we can do is criticize those aspects of the existing society that we wish to change."
In other words, a Critical Theory believes everything is so captured and corrupted by power and those who benefit from systems of power that it isn't even possible to talk about a better situation in clear terms. All that's available is criticism of why the system/society isn't better than it is. This activity has come to be known as identifying or "making visible" the various "problematics" in the existing system.
A Critical Theory OF SOMETHING would focus this general mode of engagement into a particular domain.
For example, a Critical Theory of Race in America would believe that racism is so endemic to a society and embedded within its systems to the benefit of whites that we cannot articulate a true "antiracist" vision on the terms available to us. All we could do is identify where "racism" manifests and criticize it for being there.
We call that program "Critical Race Theory" because it is a Critical Theory of Race. What it does in practice is
(1) identifies "hidden racism" in everything (criticizing those elements of the existing (racial) system they wish to change), called "identifying problematics";
(2) induces more people to think this way;
nothing else.
What a Critical America Theory would look like is not being able to articulate what a good or ideal America would look like on the terms of the existing America but criticizing those elements of America as it exists that we wish to change.
That is, it would look for everything America isn't doing perfectly according to some ideal standard that doesn't exist, probably cannot exist, and cannot even be articulated and "make those problematics visible" in the hopes of changing the system.
Leftists, including the whole of Critical Race Theory, do this endlessly. From Derrick Bell's (founder of CRT) 1970 book, Race, Racism, and American Law, forward, it is a relentless racial Critical America Theory. That's why it exported poorly and often hilariously to other countries that don't have the same law or racial history.
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States (1980) is another example, a very naked example, of a work of Critical America Theory. Specifically, this book goes through every chapter of American history, from pre-founding (Christopher Columbus) to the present (1980 at the time) and catalogues how America cheated "the people," mainly workers, indigenous, racial minorities, and women (the intersectional coalition).
What I'm telling you is that the blackpillers of Podcastistan and X, etc., very notably including Tucker Carlson, are doing a socially conservative variation on Critical America Theory. Whether Carlson or "Auron MacIntyre" (nhrn) from The Blaze, the undertone of every message is plainly "you don't hate your (real) country enough" as compared against an imaginary ideal that doesn't, can't, and won't ever exist.
The Blackpill Comics all do the same thing, relentlessly identifying "problematics" and alleged hidden systems of control that delegitimize the country as it actually is against a standard that isn't even real.
The thing is, Critical America Theory is a Critical Theory of America. That is, it is a Critical Theory. That is, when you participate in this slop, you are taking on a critical consciousness about America. Having a critical consciousness is being WOKE, by definition (of Woke). This slop is Woke.
When this Critical America Theory slop takes on a socially Leftist slant, we call it Woke Left (or just Woke).
When this Critical America Theory slop takes on a socially conservative or Rightist slant, we call it Woke Right (which is just Woke too).
They are both Woke. They are both toxic. They are both false enlightenment into a kind of terrible darkness, entitlement, malice, despair, hatred, and failure.
Reject Critical America Theory. Love your country. It's great, and it's worth it.
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I think where it fails is that those who are regurgitating Nazi ideas are not consuming Horkheimer or Freire at all, but they are repeating things Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler said and wrote. We don’t need critical theory to account for anti-Semitism or Nazism at all. Both predate the critical theory.
Another objection is that the Frankfurt school in particular was targeted by the Nazis and ultimately fled Germany owing to their Marxist and Jewish members. They fled to the U.S. and some of them worked for the OSS in the war effort. They were would-be Holocaust victims but their work is portrayed as if it was “like” Nazis. Were they pro-extermination of anybody? No? Ok then maybe it’s not the same thing.
Finally, anything can be cast into the “critical” lens but it’s not an objective reality so there’s no reason to do this if you don’t even believe in it. Not every school of thought neatly fits into its framework anyway. And trying to cast Nazis into a Marxist framework when they were clearly anti-communist actually makes it easier for Nazis to escape detection by showing examples of how they oppose Marxism. And then one also ends up ignoring the obvious, evil sources being drawn from like Chamberlain and Hitler, and so we wind up being unprepared to talk about and address where the nexus actually springs from.
For example, the whole fake Jesus wasn’t Jewish propaganda need not be viewed through the critical lens. Chamberlain wrote it. In fact the whole foundation for “positive”, de-Judaeaized Christianity was laid out by Chamberlain. Aryans? That was Chamberlain, too. His book was called “Hitler’s bible” for a reason. Parents concerned about what their kids are reading should likely worry less about whether it came from the “critical” school than if it was simply recycled Nazi fake myths.
Or… we can try to sift through all that insanity with Horkheimer, who rejected Nazism, was Jewish and if he hadn’t fled Germany would’ve wound up in the camps, too.
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Great explanation. So, would it be a correct observation to say that it's clear why it has a Marxist root? Marxism conveniently advocates "supporting every...movement against the existing social and political order of things" and is silent about what to replace them with, since what follows is the utopian eschatological emergence of Communism from the ashes. It all flows together. Also forms a nice nexus for our temporal enemies and rivals (China, Russia, Islam, etc...) to pile on since it leads to our destruction and then who cares what comes after anyway?
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ARTEMIS II AS SEEN BY THE OFFICIAL NASA CESSNA
THIS IS THE BEST LAUNCH VIDEO AND IT ISN'T CLOSE
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They really don't. yougov.com/en-us/articles… Partisan political commentaries that narrowcast red states and blues generally, reducing are worth as individuals down to how we vote, are still unreflective of how we overall view one another. Even D.C. is slightly above water on favorable-unfavorable at +1. California is +16, New York, Florida and Ohio are +22, Texas is +29, North Carolina is +45, Hawaii is +53. Some blue states are viewed more favorably than red states, and vice versa. If you look at very unfavorable, you'll see California indeed arouses the highest plurality of hatred at 25%, followed by Alabama at 20%, D.C. and New York at 19% and Mississippi at 17%, but that still means that 75%+ really didn't hate those states. So, what's going on? Some but not all Democrats really don't like Alabama and Mississippi,and some but not all Republicans really don't like California and New York. Hypothetically, then if we took a poll about the topic of the original posts, swapping Japan for California, we might find the most support among those Republicans who viewed California very unfavorably, but if it did somehow happen in our hypothetical, if Japan suddenly started voting Democrat, then they'd turn on you in an instant because you voted the wrong way.
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嫌味とかではなく本当に素朴な疑問なんだけど、アメリカ人の皆さんはなんでそこまでカリフォルニアを嫌っているんですか？
David Samuel@DSPetolicchio
I have another proposal. We swap California for Japan geographically and leave everything else as is.
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My original @X account, @BillyTucci was hacked. Even though I was verified, I did not receive any notifications and now these pos' are trying to blackmail me to get it back (FML). I am working to get it reinstated, but in the meantime, please follow me here. @elonmusk
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U.S. household incomes still have not broken even on the 2021-2023 inflation, and with oil kicking up again, might not break even until mid to late 2027, so the GOP was always likely to lose the midterms anyway. Might as well clean house now and get the permanent cabinet in place.
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This is completely false. The reason why Bondi got into trouble was because she opposed Trump when he said they were a Democrat hoax. She opened them up and the news media ran with it as primary content.
If Zeldin gets in it won't be to make the same mistake only to spread the fake news 10x more.
Democrats want Pam Bondi gone and want everyone to focus on Epstein because that's how you lose midterms.
Rep. Nancy Mace@RepNancyMace
If the reports that Lee Zeldin will be replacing Pam Bondi as Attorney General are true - I welcome it. Bondi handled the Epstein Files in a terrible manner and made this situation far worse than it had to be for President Trump. I look forward to a new Attorney General committed to getting justice for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
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@TheMilkBarTV And the votes by Congress to declare war on Japan and Germany were practically unanimous. history.house.gov/Historical-Hig… The country was united. The purpose of these lines of attack are to undermine Americans’ faith in their country.
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Tucker Carlson believes Pearl Harbor was a false flag orchestrated by Roosevelt to drag America into WWII. His evidence is a Senate inquiry that actually concluded the exact opposite - that there was zero evidence of foreknowledge of the attack.
He also conveniently leaves out that Hitler declared war on America following it.
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